Alicia is a nine$-$year$-$old and passionate about her love of horses. She can discuss almost any

aspect of her passion in great detail including: characteristics and history of various breeds,

history of the domestication, and training and riding methods. Alicia is a talented artist and has

a wonderful portfolio of her horse drawings, paintings, and sketches.

Alicia contributes to many class discussions and frequently relies on her visual memory,

advanced vocabulary, and unique sense of humor. Teachers comment on Alicia's ability to

remember so much detail.

Alicia struggles with reading and writing. Her oral reading is not fluent, characterized by wordby$-$word reading with many decoding errors. She relies on sight words, contextual cues, and

her advanced abilities in reasoning skills to comprehend and predict text. Alicia is very selfconscious about her oral reading and hates when she is called on to read in class.

Alicia's writing is characterized by many wonderful and creative ideas that are very loosely

organized. Her writing has many spelling and grammatical errors.

Alicia has always struggled with the weekly spelling tests. She works hard daily and practices

each night, but still only manages to average Partially Proficient on the weekly tests.